🗞️ The Bulletin Bored: ApeChain Voting Updates

(Issue 92)

Author

Vulkan
February 05, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 14 minutes

Welcome back for another issue of The Bulletin Bored, where I provide news, analytics, and other information on the Apecoin DAO. The ApeChain voting process began last Thursday with two separate votes: 1) to determine if the community wants an ApeChain and 2) which team they would want to build it if the answer to the first vote ends up being yes. This week’s issue includes an update on each plus overviews of the three proposals up for vote.

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🗞️ Bored News

  • ApeChain RFP Voting is in progress until next Wednesday (2/14)

  • This includes a vote to decide if the community wants to continue with that RFP voting (this additional vote ends this Wednesday 2/7)

  • AIP Voting is also in progress until next Wednesday (2/14)

  • Boring Merch releases ApeCoin snapback hats

✍️ Stat of the Week

Including the 7 up for vote last week, there were 9 proposals to vote on in January. With the new two-week voting cadence, how many proposals do you think we vote on in February?

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🗳️ ApeChain RFP Voting

The community voting period for the ApeChain RFP is currently in progress until next Wednesday (2/14). Here are the current voting results (as of Sunday afternoon PST, February 4th):

There’s also a vote (which ends on Wednesday 2/7) to first determine if the community wants an ApeChain at all. Here are the current voting results for that (as of Sunday afternoon PST, February 4th):

🗳️ AIP Live Voting

There are also three proposals in the Live Voting stage this week. Voting ends at 6 PM PST on Wednesday 2/14. You can view the proposals and vote on Snapshot.

(voting results below as of Sunday afternoon PST, February 4th)

AIP-369: Empowering ApeCoin Sub-communities with Fundraising on Twitter via IDriss

IDriss is an open-source protocol and browser extension (75k+ weekly users) that links public wallet addresses to X/Twitter usernames. It enables X/Twitter users to natively send and receive crypto, including perpetual donations.

This proposal is not requesting a grant from the DAO. Instead, it is requesting to add ApeCoin DAO’s X/Twitter account, its sub-communities, and all delegates to an allowlist, which would provide eligibility to register for the IDriss tool for free. You can find the full proposal here and the voting results as of 2/4 are below.

AIP-374: Healthcare Utility for holders of $APE and BAYC/Otherside NFTs with $APE liquidity sinks

This proposal aims to create healthcare utility for ApeCoin holders (who would have at least 50 staked tokens) plus holders of select Yuga ecosystem NFTs (BAYC/MAYC/BAKC, Kodas, and Otherdeeds). It would also include a web3 digital health platform that would accept payments in ApeCoin.

It would include dedicated, asynchronous medical advice for all qualified holders using a platform that would be similar to a “reddit-meets-medium” for healthcare. It would include a mix of medical Q&A and long-form content articles moderated by verified doctors and health science academics. The doctors and health science academics would be originally populated by a medical clinic registered in Singapore.

It would be a free platform with additional paid features for telemedicine-based synchronous medical advice paid for in ApeCoin. Time-based entitlements would also be available for qualified holders.

It is requesting $1,800,000 (denominated in ApeCoin) to fund the initial 24 months of the project, broken down as follows:

  • Software engineering team: $820,000

  • Marketing expenses: $175,000

  • Professional services (Business incorporation, accounting and legal): $70,000

  • Outsourced clinical services (every day including PH/holiday or weekends): $735,000

You can find the full proposal, including a detailed cost breakdown, here and the voting results as of 2/4 are below.

AIP-380: Swamp Gaming: Let’s pave the road to onboard millions of gamers

This proposal is requesting $492,000 with a goal to establish Swamp Gaming as a premiere gaming entertainment brand. In return, the ApeCoin DAO would receive a 5% stake in Swamp Gaming plus a 20% share of Swamp Gaming’s revenue.

Goals would include the following:

ApeCoin Community Collaborations

  • Utilize the Swamp Gaming brand and audience to promote ApeCoin DAO gaming and metaverse endeavors

  • Collaborate with local youth charities and FaZe Sway to give away gaming gear

  • Establish a collaboration with ApeChain to initiate innovative gaming initiatives

  • Organize quarterly gaming events in collaboration with Aaron Haber by utilizing his metaverse world

  • Align with Mocaverse and Animoca to explore collaborative gaming opportunities

  • Launch weekly Swamp Gaming x ApeCoin Twitter spaces

  • Explore any and all community collaborative opportunities

  • Explore Made By Apes opportunities for Swamp Gaming

Swamp Physicals

  • Bring the Swamp to life by providing every gamer with their own custom Swamp varsity jacket with NFC and Web3 tech

  • Provide creators with Swamp Gaming and ApeCoin branded merchandise

  • Launch two merchandise drops featuring NFC technology for web3 education and onboarding in collaboration with the team’s clothing partner Stevie Williams

  • Onboard Stevie Williams to join the ApeCoin DAO and collaborate with him on the launch of his first proposal

Brand Awareness

  • Achieve 500 million views of creator-generated content within the Swamp Gaming ecosystem

  • Feature Swamp Gaming in 500 creator-generated videos

  • Create 200+ Swamp House videos

  • Establish a ApeCoin DAO x Swamp Gaming Discord server and onboard 5,000 members

  • Organize monthly events aimed at guiding these Discord members through the process of onboarding into the ApeCoin community

  • Onboard the team’s creators as ApeCoin holders

  • Recruit additional gamers, expanding the team’s network to over 35 million fans within the Swamp Gaming ecosystem

Gaming Events

  • Host 10+ live Swamp Gaming events

  • Gain 3,000 paid tournament users

  • Partner Swamp Gaming events with top-tier gaming brands

The $492,000 grant request would be broken down as follows:

  • Editors & Designers: $30,000

  • Swamp House: $99,000

  • Operational Costs: $113,000

  • Gaming events: $40,000

  • Creators & Gamers: $110,000

  • Swamp Gaming Ownership: $100,000

You can find the full proposal, including a detailed cost breakdown, here and the voting results as of 2/4 are below.

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🗳️ AIP Completed Voting

There were seven proposals that completed the voting process last Thursday. Here are the final results for each:

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